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When my sister died everything happened suddenly. I got a call in the middle of the night. Was told to pack and get to Ohio. I scrambled around my room wondering what to pack for a coma. I contemplated bringing my violin. A silly thought I had about “playing her awake.” But she was gone […]

I’m glad she’s not afraid. I really am. There have been times in the past couple of years that she’s struggled with worry. Biting her nails, asking me a ton of “what ifs.” And I suppose there will still be those days. But today – her first day of the school year – she was just […]

Not too long ago I invited a photographer to come stay with my family for a couple of days. Basically, to follow me around and photo journal a typical weekend with my family. I had asked a couple of families some years ago if they had ever considered doing it, hoping they would let me tag […]

This is Erin. A friend I worked with and lived around the corner from for three years when James was stationed at Fort Drum, New York over 10 years ago. Erin is loyal. Faithful. Naive sometimes. I love her for all of that. When James was deployed to Iraq the first time, we had no clue […]